Blessed Lord! You have given us a wondrous lesson to learn. We humbly ask that you let us see the spiritual realities of life. There is a large harvest which is perishing as it waits for your disciples to give the signal for laborers to come. Lord, teach us to view this Harvest with a heart full of compassion! There are so few laborers, Lord. So stir up your Holy Spirit in us for repentance and for commitment to pray. You are the Lord of the harvest and so able and ready to send them forth. Show us how You wait for the prayer to which you have promised an answer. We are your disciples to whom the call to pray has been given. Lord, show us how You can breathe Your Spirit into us, so that Your compassion and the faith in Your promise will rouse us to unceasing, prevailing power.

O Lord! We cannot understand how You can entrust such work and give such power to us who are often slothful (lazy) and unfaithful. We thank You for all those whom You are teaching day and night to cry out to you for laborers to be sent. Lord, breathe you Spirit into all Your children. Let them learn to live only for the Kingdom and glory of their Lord and become fully awake to the faith in what their prayer can accomplish. And let our hearts be filled with the assurance that prayer offered in living faith in the living God will bring a certain and abundant answer.

Amen

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Prayer modified from Andrew Murray, October 2017

Andrew Murray was a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be “the chief end of the church”, until Jesus returns for His Bride.

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Growing the Church 101 contains six in depth group studies, each with two midweek homework sessions. The book has been recommended by Archbishop Foley Beach, Rt Rev Dr Todd Hunter and Canon David Rosebury for the express purpose of growing disciples who make disciples. Our prayer is that the Lord will use this book to increase, not just our Church's head knowledge, but also our heart knowledge and obedience. We pray that it will be a tool to enable and encourage deep discipleship, so that we will become disciples that make disciples that make a difference in the world.

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Publication Date:

Jul 29 2017

ISBN/EAN13:

1974058611 / 9781974058617